Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

An illustration that shows the Milky Way's spiral arms. If you were to spring from Earth so high you could glance down at the entire Milky Way, our home galaxy would look like a spinning pinwheel. In ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars. From early observations to more and more advanced space and ground-based telescopes, each milestone has revealed ...

A team of scientists recently discovered an unbelievably massive gas filament extending throughout the Milky Way galaxy that’s so big it’s almost hard to believe no one spotted it before now. The ...

Scientists from Argentina’s National University of San Juan say they’ve discovered a “large scale structure” in a largely unseen part of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new preprint paper ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, an immense, flat, spiral galaxy surrounded by a massive halo of stars and dark matter. The disk of stars, gas, and dust in which the Sun resides is fully 120,000 light ...

In a mysterious region of the sky known as the "zone of avoidance" veiled by our own galaxy's thick bulge, researchers have found a massive "extragalactic structure" hiding behind the Milky Way. As ...

Some galaxies meant to be spirals might've been smoothed-out into clumpy ellipticals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you were ...

Scientists sifted through a lot of noise to observe a new-to-us galaxy cluster. The cluster is hiding in plain sight behind the massive visual bulk of the Milky Way. To see through the visual noise, ...